Following on Benjamin Woolley's last episode, this one shows us the influence of board games from british society from the last 200 years and how some can become a moral teaching for others.
One of the games that took my interest the most was a game called "The Landlords Game". This game was created in 1904 by Elizabeth Magie. The game was apparently origionally designed to explain how "Land grabbing" and the renting system worked, but it was also used to teach children to gain an awareness over unfairness.
The game was first published in Britain in 1913 with the title of Brer Fox an' Brer Rabbit. This game later became one of the most famous board games in the world called "Monopoly" as the similarities are easily spotted.
After this era games like cluedo and scrabble were made to help bring families through the great depression and out of this came some of the biggest games companies at the time, some are even still around now!
I'll update my blog with the 3rd part of Woolley's series.
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